ExplosionSphere, ExplosionSpike

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Feb 2007, 06:33

AF wrote: I would take figures of what you think is suitable particle counts, then I would reduce them by 70%, as some of your explosions have literally thousands of aprticles and grind the framerate down even on the 8800GS.

I do not want to stiffle argh's creativity but please consider that some us are not on top of the line machines argh, scaling back a bit wouldn't hurt.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 09 Feb 2007, 07:39

That FX uses just 95 particles. 45 of which are just one SimpleParticleGenerator. Not thousands. Not even one hundred

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Feb 2007, 08:08

Cool cool, where you able to look at the one I pmed you about?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 09 Feb 2007, 09:12

Yeah, the lag is due to it being terrible code abuse- that code calls into existence 240 different one-particle generator systems

Should've just done it as a stack of HeatClouds, really, but HeatCloud lacks certain types of motion control, and I wasn't satisfied with the results visually. Now that I know what I'm doing, I'd suspect that I could re-write it to be far less laggy, but I'm hoping to get animated bitmap-swaps instead, as that'd make tackling that problem far easier.

Noruas · Post by **Noruas** » 12 Feb 2007, 01:55

Zydox wrote:/me likes Argh's work

/me thinks Argh needs to take better shots instead of cutting it off halfway.

AF · Post by AF » 12 Feb 2007, 02:05

maybe he's hiding something

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 12 Feb 2007, 02:24

He didn't hide the cursor, however.

manored · Post by **manored** » 12 Feb 2007, 03:42

What are those little fireballs leaving the blast?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 12 Feb 2007, 06:56

They're just little balls of... stuff. Or something. They make it sparkly. I like sparklies

manored · Post by **manored** » 12 Feb 2007, 14:07

They look weird for me... but you are the modder...

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ExplosionSphere, ExplosionSpike